Tuesday, 21 April 2009

Meet the real Ahmadinejad [updated]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demonstrates why no rational representatives of any country attended the UN's Conference on Racism, as he seemed to confuse the conference supposedly against racism for a call for racism.

It’s a chance he obviously relished, even the UN Secretary General – a man very, very slow to take offence – saying the Iranian president used his platform to "accuse, divide, and even incite."

But why give this nutcase the platform?

The Iranian leader is on record as wanting to "wipe Israel off the map" -- calling for a "new wave" of Palestinian attacks to “wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world” – to “burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury” –- supporting calls from “one of Iran’s most influential ruling cleric called Friday on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel” -- calling the formation and support of Israel a Western plot to divide the world of Islam with Israel as the pivot of this plan who have tried to blind themselves to the true sought to deny –- holding an “international” Holocaust denial conference in Tehran to continue his anti-semitic demonisation -- comments and views that commentators far and wide have sought to deny.

4 comments:

Donno much abt the Ahmad J fella. Most impressions abt him comes from the western media anyway and that can these days be safely discounted almost 50%. Now that Iraqi WMDs which were just 45 mins away from London will never be found.

But to describe the UN Sec Gen as a creature "very, very slow to take offence" is spot on.

Especially when he was so so slow to check on Israeli self-defence moves into tiny Gaza in December 2008 which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians including 900 civilians. Moves which included the use of phosphorous on civilian populations. Phosphorus, as Mr Ban would know, is classified as a chemical weapon which burns up to 816 degrees Celcius and causes horrific burns and severe injuries when in contact with human skin.

He was so slow he finally only moved when the Israelis attacked a UN-run school in the area killing 42 civilians sheltering there. And even then he could only shake his head slowly and plead for all sides, including the armed-to-the-teeth Palestinians, to show restraint.

If we want to condemn anyone, please don't use the yardstick of the current UN Sec Gen. Like most of his predecessors he only moves when the White House, Downing Street or the rest of the civilized world tells him to.

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